This is the biggest Boondoggle ever put through the Senate.
They did not consider any of the Consequences of this act. Probably because they never read it.
They just took Nancy Pelosi’s word for it, and she never read it either.
Most of us including myself have no idea who the hell wrote it. Was it staffers? Senators? The Insurance Industry? Obama?
To make this thing so long and leave so many holes it must have been written by a 5th grader .The thing does not spell out anything but leaves the health of American citizens at the Whim of Sebelius the Secretary of Health and Human svc’s ./ She is practically a dictator over anything having to do with health care, and she simply is not equipped to handle the job.
“Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you; first of all, if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.”
-Barack Hussein Obama, 16 July 2009
I seem to recall that there is an exemption for companies with fewer than 50 employees.
If so, and I owned a company that had, let’s say 200 employees, I would break the company into a half a dozen or so separate entities that worked under contract to perform their task or specific function.
Well, CongressCritter John Dingell has apparently dumped his health care proposals into the hopper every year since ~1957.
I suspect there were many pages of prewritten stuff hanging out in 'rat drawers for decades that were quickly sewn together.
The senior and important staffers write these monstrous bills. No US Senator is going to waste his time doing anything intellectually demanding plus half are on meds that make them somewhat out of it. The Senator is out talking to lobbyists, ethnic pressure groups and schmoozing donors
The staffers get outside input in this Obama era from progressive foundations
BS!......Ray Charles could see the plan for the new 2 tiered healthcare plan.....
Real Doctors will go private for pay from those that can afford it and the new "Free" Government Doctors will work for the government...after being selected from Acme Meat Cutter School and trained in the 8 week “Prodigious Government Doctor School”
Which is why the 2000 page bill is spawning what's approaching 20,000 pages of regulations, being written as we speak.
The pols claim "unintended consequences," but the reason for the "Affordable Care Act" was never aupposed to do any of the things the proponents claimed. It was designed strictly to force companies away from private insurers and begin a march towards government controlled health care, based on Britain's NHS.
Mark